Word: historicized
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Neither of the two teams made it into the World Series, so that pluvious contest will surely never attain the significance I wished for it in my dolor. But my disinterested effort to view a baseball game as historic certainly avoids the consternation that a partisan fan must confront when...
It is at such times that I would like to label the anguishing defeat a historic contest and have done with partisan furor forever. But a conversion to such intellectual detachment would mean the adoption of other, more alien, sensibilities. Judging from the nature of disinterested baseball lovers at Harvard...
Difficult as those tasks may be, certain heretical aspects of the game as it is played in my ballpark today make historic diversion attractive. Even for a dyed-in-the-wool rooter, double-knit uniforms, artificial turf, and blazer-and-turtleneck bedizened umpires all need at least ten years aging...
The library and the museum are in a low stone building set back from the reconstructed village, accessible yet surprisingly in no way insistent or obtrusively out of character. Since highway signs direct one only to "The Hoover Library," the village at the Historic Site comes as a happy dividend...
Providing for cars and other motor vehicles is obviously an important consideration at each of the presidential facilities I visited. The original provisions have just as obviously proved inadequate. Today, there are three public parking lots at the Truman Library--two of them added since the library opened. There are...